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15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after appearance of Question & 5 Choices, and with 3 Clues:/b]

1. Who was spirited away thanks to the "Night and Fog" decree?________________________
[Choices: American slaves, Irani terrorists, Enemies of Hitler, Chilean poets, First-born Hebrews ]

2. According to mythology, the Hesperides were sisters who guarded the Golden:___________________________.
[Choices: Apples, Bough, Calf, Goose, Fleece ]

3. Which writer dedicated all but two of his sonnets to the "Dark Lady" and "Mr. W.H."?________________________
[Choices: Cummings, Shelley, Blake, Frost, Shakespeare ]

4. What type of creature is a panchax?________________________
[Choices: Fish, Weasel, Moth, Scorpion, Bird ]

5. Which of these paintings is the work of Mexican artist Diego Rivera?__________________________
[Choices: American Gothic, Detroit Industry, The Bathers, Persistence of Memory, Guernica ]

6. Which female name is an anagram for one of the most important Christian holidays?____________________
[Choices: Christine, Helena, Teresa, Hannah, Effie May ]

7. The Red Guards were volunteer armed bands of industrial workers during the:______________________.
[Choices: 1917 Russian Revolution, Thirty Years' War, Napoleonic Wars, War of 1812, French Revolution ]

8. Novelist and short-story author Bernard Malamud, author of "The Natural", was born in:___________________________.
[Choices: Berlin, Germany; Oslo, Norway; Brooklyn, New York; Haifa, Israel; Havana, Cuba ]

9. Before 1930, this country's capital was called Angora:______________________.
[Choices: Sudan, Turkey, Moldova, Guatemala, Afghanistan ]

10. What is a cedilla?____________________________
[Choices: Wrestling hold, Spanish city, Diacritical mark, Bottle of olive wine, Flock of mountain goats ]

11. Which mountain is located in Canada?___________________________
[Choices: Revelstoke, Desert Island, Rainier, Katahdin, Denali ]

12. Tamino, Papageno and Sarastro are characters in which opera?________________________
[Choices: The Magic Flute, Carmen, Aida, La Boheme, The Barber of Seville ]

13. The city of San Francisco was named after San Francisco Bay, which was named after:_________________________.
[Choices: Francis of Paola, Francis of Assisi, The country of France, Sir Francis Drake, Francis Scott Key ]

14. The Madeira River is a major tributary of the __________________ River.
[Choices: Amazon, Nile, Volga, Missouri, Ganges ]

15. If you quibble over details, you are a:________________________.
[Choices: Paraclete, Pettifogger, Scapegoat, Rackrent, Kyoodle ]






[b]Answers:

1. Enemies of Hitler [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacht_und_Nebel ]

2. Apples [see the section "The Garden of the Hesperides" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperides ]

3. Shakespeare [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Lady_(Shakespeare) and https://www.theguardian.com/culture/201 ... on-mystery ]

4. Fish [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_panchax ]

5. Detroit Industry [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Industry_Murals ]

6. Teresa [Easter]

7. 1917 Russian Revolution [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards_(Russia) ]

8. Brooklyn [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Malamud ]

9. Turkey [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara ; "Ankara"="Angora" ]

10. Diacritical mark [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedilla ]

11. Revelstoke [see http://www.revelstoke-realty.com/mount_revelstoke ]

12. The Magic Flute [see the section "Roles" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Flute ]

13. Francis of Assisi [see the section "History" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco ]

14. Amazon [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira_River ]

15. Pettifogger [see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pettifog ]


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